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Farmers could help to maintain populations of bees and other pollinators by sowing inexpensive seed mixes on their land, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed pollinators visiting study plots in Berkshire, UK, and explored how sowing different seed mixes and using different management techniques affected the flowers produced and the pollinators visiting them. Overall, 84% of the crop ...

Katherine Richardson talks about planetary boundaries and how new knowledge is helping us to better define the necessary economic, environmental, and social steps which will lead us towards true sustainability. Read more about the launch event ...

Cropping systems with variable sowing dates adapted to changing climatic conditions — as opposed to those with fixed sowing dates — will result in increased mean future crop yields, a modelling study has found. Multiple cropping systems, including growing two or more crops at the same time on the same plot ...

Watch as Bob Engelman, Christian Friis Bach, and Dagfinn Høybråten field questions from the audience on challenging issues which fall under the umbrella of sustainability. Read more about the event ...

The diverse and dynamic range of careers in horticulture will be on display when a group of year 11 and 12 students descend on the National Horticulture Convention at the Gold Coast on Friday 26 June. During their attendance at the Convention, incorporating both AUSVEG and Apple and Pear Australia Ltd (APAL), students from Loganlea, ...

Danish Development Minister Christian Friis Bach talks about incorporating social aspects into the environmental movement as a strategy towards better sustainability results. Read more about the launch event ...

Concern about environmental degradation is beginning to impact the global economy, according to a new report by an international environmental research group. The Worldwatch Institute details a lengthy and distressing list of environmental problems caused by the global economic system, but finds some evidence that the world is taking small steps toward a sustainable ...

More than a dozen factors, ranging from declines in flowering plants and the use of memory-damaging insecticides to the world-wide spread of pests and air pollution, may be behind the emerging decline of bee colonies across many parts of the globe. Scientists are warning that without profound changes to the way human-beings manage the planet, declines in pollinators needed to feed a growing ...

International environmental crusader and human rights activist Erin Brockovich has launched a new initiative to further the cause of environmental protection in Australia - the Environmental Justice Society (EJS). An organisation of environmentally conscious experts from WWF Australia, The University of Queensland, DEA - Doctors for the Environment, EDO - Environmental Defenders Office and Shine ...

The production of frankincense may be halved in the next 15 years because of a massive reduction in the number of trees that produce it, according to Dutch and Ethiopian researchers. The aromatic resin — which is used in incense and perfume, and is one of the gifts that features in the Christmas story of the Nativity — is produced by tapping Boswellia trees, which grow in the ...

In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule to define the term “gluten-free” for voluntary use in the labeling of foods. The next month, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), which sets standards for manufacturers of alcohol, released an announcement that the agency is currently reviewing their own policy on gluten statements in the labeling ...

The working relationship between EnviroInsite and EarthSoft goes back a number of years. Now with the acquisition of EI LLC's intellectual property (namely EnviroInsite) by EarthSoft, the powerful EQuIS database and the astounding graphics capabilities of EnviroInsite are under one roof. This is an exciting move for EnviroInsite users, as the expanded user base will allow ...

A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies, according to the first global assessment of pollinators. However, the assessment, a two-year study conducted and released today by the Intergovernmental ...

A four-year project aimed at addressing the lack of knowledge about the impacts of climate change on food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity in mountain ecosystems has been launched in East Africa. The project, ...

Dewaco organised seminar concerning cavitation technology and especially ultrasonic cavitation treatment which is used in Dewaco CAVIA product. Speakers were experts of the field. Seminar included also visit to Finnsonic Oy, manufacturer of ultrasonic ...

The international collection of the South Pacific's coconut palm species, held at a field gene bank in Papua New Guinea (PNG), is under threat from a disease outbreak close to the gene bank. The warning came at a meeting on the Pacific coconut research and development (R&D) strategy in Samoa last week (1 October–2 November), convened by the Australian Centre for International ...